I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Qin Liangyu, Shi Tianbao and other chieftains almost wanted to cry when they saw the Red River Plain.The land here is so fertile that a handful of mud can contain a handful of oil, and you can survive even if you stick a chopstick in it.

How can we let people use this heaven-given treasure?
The ancients said that there are three no-goes in the world, and they are referring to "No one should give in to your wife, children and fields!"

Not to mention the fields, even if it is the edge of the field, even if it is possible to collect an extra bucket of land, it will not give up an inch of land. This is the deepest memory implanted in the minds of Ming people.These lands were given to them by the regent of the Ming Dynasty, and they belong to them.

The battle started immediately without mobilization. Facing the Southern Monkey natives, they were actually proud of themselves. The battle between Zheng and Ruan had been going on for more than 30 years. Since birth, many of them had been exposed to fighting the most.Seeing the people of the Ming Dynasty transporting a large amount of property here, including cloth, refined salt, and delicious canned goods, in the eyes of the Southern Monkeys, Lin'an Zhu is a big fat piece of meat, and they naturally want to grab it out of habit.

It's just a pity that these chieftain soldiers are very powerful in combat, especially Shi Tianbao. This guy usually likes to compete with cattle. He is a real fierce man. When he was in Nanjing, Cheng Shijie gave him a sharp spear. He straightened the spear and Like a tiger entering a pack of wolves, the Southern Monkey natives were defeated steadily.

This raid was finally repelled by the chieftain army after half an hour. However, they were very excited now. They finally had a piece of fertile land that belonged to them.

Until now, Qin Liangyu is still a little unbelievable: "Are all these lands ours?"

"It's yours!"

The director of the Lin'an Working Committee took an appointment letter and said: "By order of the Supervisory Regent, from now on, a temporary management committee will be established, with Qin Liangyu as the director of the Lin'an Executive Committee, Shi Tianbaozuo, Wang Rui, who is myself, Serving as the director of Lin'an Working Committee and concurrently as the secretary-general of Lin'an Executive Committee, Chen Keyong, Wu Yingren, Gao Shilin, Ya Longyang, Luo Doulin, Xiang Dahu, Tan Yanxiang, Liu Zhaosheng, Feng Junming, He Xiaobai, Ran Kun , Jiang Zhuangyan, and Bai Zhongshun as the committee!”

Qin Liangyu asked in confusion: "What is the official position of the director of the executive committee?"

Wang Rui smiled lightly and said: "General Qin, this director is equivalent to the prefect of the previous dynasty, and the deputy director is the deputy prefect..."

Then, Wang Rui told Qin Liangyu the job responsibilities of the executive committee members in detail. After half an hour, these chieftains were still not familiar with this, but Wang Rui explained in the most straightforward language: "From now on, our Lin'an executive The committee, headed by General Qin, can collectively discuss and deal with matters big or small within the framework of the Ming Dynasty's laws!"

Shi Tianbao understood. He pointed to the deserted land in the distance and said, "Whose land here belongs to?"

"It nominally belongs to the Ming Dynasty, but it is still occupied by the Southern Monkeys. If you feel that the more than 20 acres of land are not enough, you can just kill those monkeys and take the land!"

"Isn't this illegal?"

Wang Rui explained: "The law of the Ming Dynasty means that the people who protect Ding are the people of the Ming Dynasty. They are just southern monkeys. If you kill a monkey, you are violating the law?"

Qin Liangyu slowly realized that Cheng Shijie was using them as spearmen.They use their tribe's young men to fight with Nanhou here.

But the problem is that this is a conspiracy. They clearly know that Cheng Shijie is using them, but the problem is that they are still being used by Cheng Shijie. You must know that although the chieftain is the local emperor, in fact, they are actually the defeated generals of the Central Plains Dynasty. , but wherever the toasts are set up, the environment is either harsh or the land is barren. Anyway, the rich land cannot reach them. After all, the losers can only pick up some scraps and cold juice to eat.

Why do chieftains from various places often rebel?It is because of poverty, poverty is their original sin and their biggest dilemma. The land under the rule of the chieftain needs resources but not resources, good land but not fertile land. It is just useless, so the chieftain is established.

Under the leadership of Wang Rui, they came to Lin'an City and allocated houses to the warriors under his command. After several days of allocation work and quarreling among the tribes, under Wang Rui's persuasion, they finally reached an agreement and expanded to the surrounding areas.

Without men and horses, this matter is very simple. Just transfer people directly from the tribe. Anyway, Cheng Shijie is responsible for transporting people here. He can not only transport people and horses, but also equipment, medicine and food.

The first batch of chieftain troops that arrived in Lin'an City only had more than 6 troops. Three months later, at the end of April of the second year of Dingxin, the number of chieftain troops that arrived here exceeded [-]. If family members are included, There are more than [-] people.

Now Lin'an Town has become a huge construction site. On the construction site, tens of thousands of Southern Monkey War prisoners are working from dawn to dusk under the whip of the supervisor, setting fire to thorn bushes, cutting down trees, clearing wood and stones, The land was leveled, canals and roads built, and factories built.

With their efforts, fertile farmland and sugar cane fields gradually took shape, irrigation and drainage systems were also in place, and some lands were even eager to plant crops.

A large number of chieftain immigrants who came to Sichuan, Huguang, Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi also worked hard here. In Qin Liangyu's view, these southern monkeys deserved it. They were guarding such a good land and were so poor that they couldn't even afford clothes. It’s like begging for food with a golden rice bowl in hand.

At first, Cheng Shijie only gave them more than 20 acres of land. They immediately attacked Nanhou with knives and gradually eroded the surrounding Nanhou natives. They captured the indigenous captives and forced them to work with whips. Although , the Southern Monkey people are tough, brave and good at fighting, but the tribal warriors of the chieftains are not just good at cooking.

With Cheng Shijie's support at all costs, these barbarian legions beat Nanhou to pieces and either surrendered or were beaten to death and became prisoners.

Although the Southern Monkeys are fierce, they really can't be arrogant in front of these chieftains. The chieftains will not talk about human rights with their slaves. They are absolutely crazy about laboring prisoners of war. They grow three seasons of rice a year, four seasons of vegetables, and When trees were cut down for mining, those who were unwilling to work were all killed as sacrifices to the gods.

Thanks to the hard work of these prisoners of war, Lin'an developed rapidly.

The entire Red River Plain is filled with fragrant rice and forests of sugar cane. Villages and towns formed by wooden houses and bamboo buildings are everywhere. It is densely populated. Dozens of ethnic groups work hard here, and some even engage in poultry and aquaculture if possible. It is a pastoral scene. .

The main force who are just working hard at farming is not young and strong, but a group of old and weak women and children of all ethnic groups. When they plow the fields, they will plow out human bones. However, these working old and weak women and children seem to have become accustomed to this. In this scene, they gnashed their teeth at this behavior of throwing bones around: "I've told you so many times that you have to smash them to fertilize the land. It's so irresponsible!"

The policy implemented by Lin'an was almost the same as that of Luzon. It was also the same strategy of vacating the cage and exchanging birds. The fertile land controlled by the Southern Monkey was exchanged for the barren land held by the chieftain.

Since then, the chieftains and their tribesmen continued to fight. During the battle, officials appointed by the court uniformly distributed the captured fields, forests and mines captured in the battle.

These barbarians deserve to be called barbarians, and they don't feel any guilt at all for killing the Southern Monkeys. These are the traditions of their ethnic minorities, in order to compete for living space.

There have been many disasters and man-made disasters in the past few years. The officials appointed by the imperial court are either thinking about conscription or busy collecting money. As for people's livelihood projects and infrastructure, they are basically destroyed in a mess.On these large and small construction sites, there are not only the people of the Ming Dynasty, but also the barbarians under the rule of the chieftains.

Due to the adoption of work-for-relief, both Han people and barbarian people were paid a unified amount of one dou of grain per day. If they didn't want the grain, they could exchange it for other things or money. In short, these people were busy building roads, dredging ditches or building factories. , the work efficiency is quite fast.Jiangnan, which was originally on the verge of death due to the torture of the war, has regained new vitality in just over half a year.At the same time, tempted by the war dividends and the temptation of work, the population of chieftains in various places dropped sharply, and one chieftain after another returned their hereditary power to the court.

Starting from Shizhu Tusi in Sichuan, followed by Longshan Tusi and Nanjiang Tusi in Huguang, a total of 54 counties, and four local prefectures, although these reforms are moving in a good direction, Zhou Ning still feels a little slow.

Cheng Shijie and Zhou Ning were walking on the streets of Nanjing.

Zhou Ning asked with great confusion: "Your Majesty, we can obviously use military means to quickly solve this problem. Why has it been delayed for four months and it has not been solved yet? How long will it take for Western Qin to solve it?"

"Have you ever wondered why we captured the city of Nanjing under such difficult circumstances?"

"It's all those bastards!"

"Because we have forced those bastards to a dead end. They have no way out and can only fight tooth and nail. What we want now is the lives of the chieftains. They have no way back. Do you think they will fight us tooth and nail?"

Wu Sheng said with disdain: "Just fight, no one is afraid of whom!"

"Wu Sheng, this idea of ​​yours is very threatening and absolutely unacceptable!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Governing a big country is like cooking small dishes, so there is no need to rush!"

"However, we now have enough strength to launch the Western Expedition. As long as we wipe out the Western Qin, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia and Gansu, and unify the world, we can concentrate our efforts and implement the new dynasty and new policies throughout the country!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Xiqin and Jiangnan are actually different!"

"Why is it different?"

"In the south of the Yangtze River, the gentry themselves banded together to resist the imperial court, while in the Western Qin Dynasty, the gentry and bandits banded together to resist the imperial court!"

Cheng Shijie analyzed: "Because of the strong pressure brought by the imperial court, those gentry temporarily cooperated with Li Zicheng, a rogue bandit. If the imperial court sends troops now, they will definitely be more united. The Battle of Nanjing may not happen again. If we postpone the attack, the rogue bandits and gentry will The honeymoon period is over!”

Wu Sheng suddenly realized that no wonder Chang Yu, who presided over the Western Expedition, had not been in a hurry. It was because his vision was too small.

Cheng Shijie has been thinking about why the gentry and landlords are so enthusiastic about annexing land. To put it bluntly, they are actually driven by interests. Although the Ming Dynasty's public grain tax is [-] to [-] tax, of course this is only theoretical, but in fact The tax was more than half, and there were additional corvees.

Under the same half tax situation, renting the land of the gentry can exempt them from corvee labor. Many people would rather sell their land and become tenants, because self-cultivating farmers have worked hard for a year, and it is better to be tenants of landlords.So here’s the problem. Even if there are droughts, floods and other disasters in farming, the problem is that the land rent will not change and can even be increased. In this case, investing in land is equivalent to an annual income of at least 50.00%.

Such a huge profit even exceeds the profit of Pfizer, the leading company in future control companies. Last year, Pfizer's interest rate was 40.00% 20.00%, Merck's was 20.00% [-]%, and Apple's was [-]% [-]%. In other words, even these high-tech monopolies do not even have as high a profit rate as the landlords of the Ming Dynasty.

In this case, investing in land is the most profitable industry. Therefore, in this case, the gentry, landlords, and nobles of the past dynasties will not annex land by any means.

Cheng Shijie figured out why the benefits of running a factory were not bad, but the problem was that not many real big landowners joined him and responded to his industrial empire strategy.

Even if Cheng Shijie takes coercive measures to seize land from landlords and gentry and forcibly distribute it, just like in the founding periods of previous dynasties, this approach only treats the symptoms, not the root cause.As long as the population growth exceeds the limit of the land's endurance, troubled times will come when people will not be able to make a living.

Cheng Shijie took two preparations, one was a stick and sweet dates, and the other was force to intimidate.

Cheng Shijie continued: "Although I am not preparing to launch a Western Expedition for the time being, the problem of Western Qin must be solved. We follow the old rules, be polite first and then attack!"

Cheng Shijie is a little anxious now. Spanish diplomatic work, land acquisition work in South America, and standing up for the Spanish Empire have made the 30-year war in Europe more intense.

Zhou Ning sighed and said: "The General Staff has sent Li Xin to Xi'an. This matter is actually not urgent, but Your Majesty, there is one more thing. Have you forgotten?"

"what's up?"

Zhou Ning's eyes fell on Wu Sheng.

Wu Sheng said with some resentment: "Did you find the wrong person?"

Wu Sheng thought to himself that you can't even catch him with a sheep, it's almost bald.

Zhou Ning sighed and said: "Your Majesty, it's time for you to ascend the throne!"

For this reason, Cheng Shijie shook his head slightly and said: "Let's discuss this matter again, let's discuss it again!"

Cheng Shijie doesn't want to be the emperor, not because he has no desire for power, but because he doesn't want to be locked up in the cage of the Forbidden City. What Cheng Shijie wants to do most now is to wait for the country to be unified and the world to be peaceful and stable, so that he can accompany Cheng Jialong and Cheng Jiayue Enjoy life. During this time, he has been very busy and neglected his children.

Once he decides to take the throne, he automatically enters that cage. (End of chapter)